News + Awards

Five Outstanding Examples of Industrial Adaptive Reuse

— Urban Land

Midwives break ground ceremonially for Boston’s first freestanding birth center in Roxbury

— The Boston Globe

Healthy Beginnings: MASS's Amie Shao on the Power of Birth Spaces and Conditions for Care — Madame Architect

— Madame Architect

Making Progress—and Facing Reality—in Maternal and Newborn Health

— Helmsley Charitable Trust

MASS: A Non-Profit Model for Architecture in Service of Society

— ArchDaily

Maternal and newborn health investments’ most powerful asset is space

— Devex

The Neighborhood Birth Center is Eager to Bear Fruit

— Ujima Boston

Amie Shao: Designing Birth Spaces That Change Outcomes

— Apple Podcasts: Play with Matches

Wood Helps a Domestic Violence Shelter Become a Beacon for Safety

— Think Wood

“The Architecture of Decarceration”

— Carceral Architecture, Princeton University Press

Garrett’s Space: Alumni break ground with a peer-focused perspective on mental health

— Michigan Today

Memorable Cultural Moments of 2025

— Boston Art Review

Zoning Board approves Roxbury birth center plan

— Bay State Banner

Scenic Hudson unveils $43.7M Northside Hub as model for greener urban redevelopment

— Times Union

The Architecture of Decarceration

— Carceral Architecture: From Within and Beyond the Prison Walls

BE+ Green Building Showcase Awards: Site and Landscape

— Built Environment Plus

Noella Nibakuze Reshapes Rwanda’s Design Identity

— Hospitality Design

Phius Passive Projects Design Competition: Best Project by a Young Professional 2025

— Phius

Phius Passive Projects Design Competition: High Rise Multifamily 2025

— Phius

MASS Design Group turns historic New York factory into community hub

— Dezeen

Scenic Hudson opens new 'Northside Hub' in Poughkeepsie

— WAMC

Historic 170-year-old Alabama hotel saved from demolition

— Advance Local Media

Scenic Hudson’s Northside Hub Transforms a Piece of Abandoned History into a Promising Future

— The River Journal

The Conservation Fund saves the Historic Edistone Hotel in Downtown Selma

— Bama Buzz

Scenic Hudson Opens Northside Hub in Poughkeepsie, Transforming Abandoned Factory into Net-Zero Headquarters and Community Space

— Chronogram

Historic Standard Gage factory repurposed into Scenic Hudson's Northside Hub

— Spectrum News

Standard Gage building revival complete. What's taken shape at Scenic Hudson's Northside Hub

— Poughkeepsie Journal

See inside Scenic Hudson's new headquarters, the Northside Hub

— Poughkeepsie Journal

MASS Design Group transforms vacant manufacturing plant in Poughkeepsie, New York

— The Architect's Newspaper

Conservation Fund saves Selma’s historic Edistone Hotel from the wrecking ball

— Black Belt News Network

Garrett’s Space Offers A Bigger Space for Teens and Young Adults Navigating Mental Health Challenges

— Hour Detroit

"I Would Prefer Not To" Podcast: MASS Design Group

— The Architectural League of New York

Rwandan architect redesigns urban development in Africa

— Deutsche Welle

Building Cancer Care from the Ground Up in Rwanda

— Harvard Medicine

Garrett’s Space Breaks Ground on Transformative Mental Health Campus for Young Adults

— The New Sun Times

‘This place will save lives’: New mental health campus breaks ground in Ann Arbor

— NBC WDIV TV

Ground broken on Garrett's Space expansion

— WEMU 89.1

Nonprofit to break ground on center for young adults facing mental health challenges

— Crain's Detroit Business

Rooted in Tradition, Nature, and Community: Wellness and Healing Spaces from the North to the South Africa

— ArchDaily

Amid Zoning Debate, Advocates Press for Roxbury Birth Center

— The Boston Globe

Zoning Board Made Wrong Call in Rejecting Roxbury Birth Center

— The Boston Globe

MASS Design Group Transforms an Abandoned Hudson Valley Cistern Into an Underground Arts Venue

— Architectural Record

This building is designed to help its residents live a longer, happier life

— Boston Globe

Poughkeepsie: Main Street Momentum

— Chronogram

Future suicide prevention center outside Ann Arbor secures $373K in county millage funding

— MLIVE

MASS Design Group’s senior housing redevelopment fosters resident connections in Boston

— Think Wood

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

— NPR

Building Responsibly

— AIA New York

Learning From Poughkeepsie

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Story in the Public Square

— PBS

Berkeley Rupp Prize awarded to Sierra Bainbridge, co-founder of MASS Design Group

— Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

— ArchDaily

Dutchess County youth center to cost about $70M to build

— Poughkeepsie Journal

Participatory design in action

— The World Bank ZIRP Blog

Norrsken Kigali House / MASS Design Group

— ArchDaily

Building a Better World

— Harvard Magazine

Five key projects by Dezeen Awards judge and MASS Design Group's Kelly Alvarez Doran

— Dezeen